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Advanced combustion technologies for gas turbine power plants
Objectives are to develop actuators for enhancing the mixing between gas streams, increase combustion stability, and develop hgih-temperature materials for actuators and sensors in combustors. Turbulent kinetic energy maps of an excited jet with co-flow in a cavity with a partially closed exhaust end are given with and without a longitudinal or a transverse acoustic field. Dielectric constants and piezoelectric coefficients were determined for Sr{sub 2}(Nb{sub x}Ta{sub 1-x}){sub 2}O{sub 7} ceramics
Automatic eduction and statistical analysis of coherent structures in the wall region of a confine plane
This paper describes a vortex detection algorithm used to expose and statistically characterize the
coherent flow patterns observable in the velocity vector fields measured by Particle Image
Velocimetry (PIV) in the impingement region of air curtains. The philosophy and the architecture of
this algorithm are presented. Its strengths and weaknesses are discussed. The results of a
parametrical analysis performed to assess the variability of the response of our algorithm to the 3
user-specified parameters in our eduction scheme are reviewed. The technique is illustrated in the
case of a plane turbulent impinging twin-jet with an opening ratio of 10. The corresponding jet
Reynolds number, based on the initial mean flow velocity U0 and the jet width e, is 14000. The
results of a statistical analysis of the size, shape, spatial distribution and energetic content of the
coherent eddy structures detected in the impingement region of this test flow are provided.
Although many questions remain open, new insights into the way these structures might form,
organize and evolve are given. Relevant results provide an original picture of the plane turbulent
impinging jet